Room 417, Monday night

[fates_jaye]

Jaye's vegging, trolling through bad Vanessa Saturn fanfic and occasionally looking over at her laundry like she's expecting it to get up and do itself. It's Fandom. It might.


Jaye picks up, checking the caller ID first. "Hey there!"

"You spend too much time in Photoshop," Mahandra greets her.

"I do not," Jaye says. "I didn't even have to sharpen pictures."

"Liar. You did not go to another planet."

"I did so. I even bought you stuff."

"Are you sure you don't mean 'sold you a bridge'?"

"No. Seriously. That's a real library in there. I still have to show the pics to Rory," Jaye tells her.

"I'm totally looking through Google right now for these pictures."

"You should be glad I'm not dead. They wanted me to fly a spaceship."

"Are you on drugs?"

Jaye frowns. "Why does everyone always ask me that? No! I'm serious. I hung out, I shopped, I took pictures, I went to a bar with two hot Jedi, one of them being my first choice for a prom date."

Mahandra pauses. "That guy again?"

"Uh huh."

"Ooh."

"I know. So yes, I went to another planet and it was actually a lot of fun."

"I so don't believe you."

"You have photographic evidence!" Jaye reminds her.

"I have Photoshop!"

Jaye blows into the phone.

"What the hell was that?" Mahandra asks, sounding startled.

"Must be getting static. Talk to you later?"

"Sure," Mahandra says.

"Cool. Bye." And then she hangs up the phone.


She'll call back tomorrow and have a normal conversation, but right now she's just adding this to the list of things she's just not going to talk about with normal people. Seriously, it's getting to be a big list.


[Will be a linkdrop later. Door's closed, but stop by if you feel like it.]

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[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

He looks over and practically beams. "That one's mine. The one I got from Dean is nice too, but I like that one better." Alec leans towards her, resting his shoulder against hers as they look at the book.

[fates_jaye]

She looks up at him and smiles before looking back at the book. "You need to go cute on me more often."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec hmms and gives her a dubious glance. "Really?"

[fates_jaye]

"Yeah," she says, looking back up at him. "I kind of like seeing you all happy like that."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

He grins boyishly and nudges her lightly with his shoulder. "Lot easier to be happy here. The company helps too."

[fates_jaye]

She lets herself be nudged, leaning down to kiss his shoulder. "Glad to help."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Shifting, he puts an arm around her shoulders and squeezes. "You know, we haven't done a date thing in a while."

[fates_jaye]

"We haven't," she agrees. "Are you thinking we should fix this?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"I am," he says, nodding. "Maybe soon. Tomorrow?"

[fates_jaye]

"I'm free after workshops," she agrees. "Anywhere in particular?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Where haven't we been yet? Or we could go drink again," he says, thinking out loud as he pages through the book.

[fates_jaye]

"There's the pizza place, or the ice cream place, or..." She pauses, smiling at the mental image she's getting. "Ever bowled?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

He frowns slightly, trying to picture what she means. "Like with a ball, where you throw it or something?"

[fates_jaye]

"Yeah," she says. "You roll a ball down a lane and try to knock over pins. It's a game. I rule at it." No, she doesn't.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Okay, that sounds like... fun. Or at least something to do," he says slowly. "There's a place to bowl around here?"

[fates_jaye]

"Uh huh. Fast Eddie's. There's also pool and games," she says. "I haven't done any of that there, though. And it's fun when you play right."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Pool?" He perks up a little, grinning. "Sounds like we've got a date then."

[fates_jaye]

"That's a better reaction," Jaye smiles. "You play?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Picked it up on my way here," he says, nodding. "Made enough money so I didn't need to steal the whole trip. But we can do the bowling too, since I've never tried it."

[fates_jaye]

She's actually impressed. "Are you saying you hustled your way to Fandom?

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"If by hustle you means something other than 'a dance' or 'too move quickly or unceremoniously', then yes." He's preening a little. Not literally.

[fates_jaye]

Jaye grins. "First, I'm remembering that before there is pool-playing. Second, that's the coolest thing ever."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"No other way to get money," he says, looking rather proud of himself. "Plus it was way more fun to see the looks on people's faces when a kid beat them."

[fates_jaye]

"I bet," she says. "You're big on revealing hidden talents today. Between the non-dirty scrapbooking and this..."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"I could probably think of a couple more," he says, grinning. "And there could always be dirty scrapbooking too."